(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels, in video posted online, said they had taken control of the communication networks of two powerful army divisions in Daraa province. Daraa rebels, who made rapid advance in Sheikh Meskin town, say they have seized...
The U.N.’s “action plan” to call a temporary halt to the violence in Syria will only work to strengthen the Assad regime, an opposition leader said on Friday to Anadolu Agency. In an exclusive interview with the Turkish news agency, the defense minister of the...
Flavien Moreau, the first French militant to return from Syria, has been sentenced to seven years in jail as The Paris Criminal Court handed down the maximum penalty Thursday, concluding the trial that began on Oct. 17. Another French national Djebbar Farid, 26, was...
Reporting by Faris Al Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Activists from al-Raqqa, who live in Turkey, have founded an educational house to be a station for activists and social bodies for inside and outside Syrians from all...
By Al Hussein Al Shishakli ISTANBUL (Zaman Al Wasl) - A new bloc within the Syrian National Coalition to be announced soon, with aim to revive the national role of the key opposition group to serve the people and the revolution, source told Zaman...
PARIS (Reuters) - France will decide in the coming weeks whether to send fighter jets to Jordan to strike Islamic State militants in Iraq in an effort to increase the number of missions and reduce the cost, the army spokesman and officials said on Thursday....
BEIRUT (Reuters) - With moderate rebels facing defeat by al Qaeda in Syria's north, groups holding a corner of the south are seeking a higher profile and more help, as the last Western-backed forces holding out against both President Bashar al-Assad and the jihadists....
(Reuters) - President Barack Obama wants his advisers to review the administration's Syria policy after determining it may not be possible to defeat Islamic State militants without removing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, CNN reported on Wednesday. Citing senior U.S....
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu expressed deep concern on Wednesday for the Syrian city Aleppo, which has been battered by Assad regime bombing. "The world is just watching this atrocity as it did when Damascus and Hama came under...
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(Reuters) - Syria's neighbors Lebanon, Turkey , Jordan and Iraq are cutting back sharply on the number of Syrians they allow onto their soil as they can no longer cope with the influx of refugees, two prominent humanitarian agencies said on Thursday. The number of refugees...
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Cars carrying food and aid supplies entered a southern Damascus neighborhood on Wednesday thanks to a local ceasefire agreement between pro-government officials and insurgents, a monitoring group said on Wednesday. Such truces have been...
ANKARA (Reuters) - Iran denied on Wednesday a monitoring group's report that an Iranian nuclear scientist had been killed in Syria last week, according to the official IRNA news agency. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Monday five nuclear...
BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian authorities detained a prominent Damascus-based writer and dissident Wednesday as he was trying to leave the country, his political party said. Louay Hussein was taken into custody at the Syria-Lebanon border as he was heading to Spain to visit his family,...
(Reuters)- A Canadian-born woman who emigrated to Israel and served in its military has joined Kurdish militants fighting Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) insurgents in northern Syria, Israel Radio reported on Monday. The Canadian...
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented the death of 865 people since the U.S-led coalition started its strikes on Syria on September23 until last night. Victims as following: -...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- The decision of Syrian opposition’s government to cut salaries of its workers into half, has excluded the ministers and senior officials, source told Zaman al-Wasl. The Cut Policy adopted recently by the interim...
By Zaman staff; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Ahmad Kassab Masalmeh, a Jihadi icon, was assassinated last Monday in mysterious circumstances in Horan, according to local activists. Masalmeh, known as Abo Muhammed Harasta, had...
(Reuters) - About 13.6 million people, equivalent to the population of London, have been displaced by conflicts in Syria and Iraq , and many are without food or shelter as winter starts, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said on Tuesday. Amin Awad, UNHCR's director for the Middle...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian Alawite-dominated province of Tartus, in massive funeral, has buried 17 troops of 150 killed last week by Islamic State militant group east Homs, activists said on Tuesday. The coastal city, which considered as a main...
